Working with JAX-RPC handlers and clients
The Java™ API for XML-based remote procedure calls (JAX-RPC) provides you with a standard way of developing interoperable and portable web services. You can use JAX-RPC handlers, handler lists and client applications with your service integration bus-enabled web services.
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- JAX-RPC handlers and handler lists.
- JAX-RPC client applications.
A JAX-RPC handler is a Java class that performs a range of handling tasks.For example: logging messages, or transforming their contents, or terminating an incoming request. To create a JAX-RPC handler, you can use a tool such as IBM® Rational® Application Developer. To enable handlers to undertake more complex operations, you chain them together into handler lists. You associate each handler list with one or more ports, so that the handler list can monitor activity at the port, and take appropriate action depending upon the sender and content of each message that passes through the port.
JAX-RPC client applications send and receive web service request and response messages. JAX-RPC client applications that use the IBM JAX-RPC run-time environment can do this in a number of different ways, depending on the bindings in the WSDL document that they are developed against, and the configuration data that is used at run time.
Detailed instructions on how to configure JAX-RPC handlers, handler lists and client applications for use with the service integration bus are provided in the following topics: